Means for operating churns



(No Model.)

L. H. OONNER.

- MEANS FOR OPERATING CHURNS.

No. 455,739. PatentedJfiIy 14, 1891.

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LAURANCE H. CONNER, OF GRAND VIEIV, TEXAS.

MEANs F-OR OPERATING CHURNS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 455,739, dated July 14,1891. Application filed December 2, 1890- Serial No. 373.386. (No model.

To (tZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LAURANOE H. CONNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Grand View, in the county of Johnson and State of Texas, haveinvented anew and useful Means for Operating Chu rns, of which the following is a specification.

This invention isan improvem ent in churns, and has for its object to provide a simple and effective churn.

With this object in view the invention resides in the various novel details of construction and the combination of parts, hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings in which I have illustrated myinvention, and in which like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts, Figure l isaside elevation of my improved churn. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section taken on the shoulders at and omitting the wheel B of Fig. 1.

In the drawings, theietter A designates the frame, which consists of a platform a, standards a, and a cross-piece a The standards a have shoulders a provided on their inner sides, for a purpose to be described. A driving-wheel B is mounted upon a shaft 1), which is suitably journaled in the cross-piece a and said driving-wheel may be provided with any means whereby it may be caused to re-' volve. I have illustrated the said drivingwheel as being provided with a crank-handle b for this purpose. The wheel B may have upon its periphery bands, for a purpose to be described.

0 represents the .churn, and is provided with a pine near the bottom, which is designed to fit in a suitable hole in the dashershaft, which will now be described.

I) is a dasher-shaft, having upon its upper end the horizontal Wheel E, having the flange e, and above the wheel E is a journal 6'. The dasher-shaft D has upon its lower end the dasher-blades (Z, and has in its body the hole (1', within which fits a pin 0. The said dasher is held in such position that the periphery of the wheel B will impinge upon the flange e of the wheel E, and the side of the wheel B will impinge upon the periphery proper of the wheel E, and thereby impart motion to the same by means of the following device.

' F designates a spring-bar, which has one of its ends pivotally secured in the shoulder a on one of the standards a, a central bearingpiecef, provided to receive thejournal e, and

having its other end adapted to be received by a catch or, located on the shoulder a on the opposite standard.

It will be seen that in order to place my churn in operative position I place the churnbody upon the platform, pour the'cream therein, place the dasher-shaft Within the churn- .body, as before described, and press the wheel E against the wheel B by means of the springbar F, as before described, the frictional contact of the peripheries of the two wheels being increased, if desired, by bands of rubber or leather which may be placed thereon. It is obvious that bythe revolution of the driving-wheel E the dasher-shaft will be caused to revolve therewith and the cream will quickly be churned.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with the standards provided with shoulders upon their rearsides, of a cross-piece between said standards, adriving-wheel journaled on said cross-piece, a

dasher-shaft suitably mounted within the churn-body and having upon its upper enda flanged wheel and the journal above said flanged wheel, and aspring-bar having one end pivoted to one of the standards in its shoulder and havingabearing near its center and having its other end adapted to be received by a catch on the shoulder in the other standard, the said spring-bar being adapted to press the flanged wheel against the driving-wheel, substantially as and for the pur- 9o pose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses. LAURANOE H. OONNER. Witnesses:

JOHN M. BERRY, JAMES H. TAYLOR. 

